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[Virex]

My profile pic is a troll, my postings aren't. Come on. This is a fun thread, those are okay at times, too.

 

[OutrageousFacts]

Keep it up like that and you'll be my Holowka 2.0

 

[Virex]

Keep it up like that and you'll be my Holowka 2.0

Get a fucking life please. Go have sex or something or well at least go outside.

 

[ULTROS!]

Make Link female = lots of porn and panty shots = People will not be happy
Make Zelda male = misogynist etc = People will not be happy
Let Zelda/Link stay in their current gender = old fashioned, misogynist = People will not be happy

 

[Saruhashi]

The real question is, why does Link need to be female? Just make an original female character who everyone can enjoy. Last I heard characters like Chun Li, Lara Croft, Claire Redfield, Ellie from The Last of Us and Samus Aran were a big hit with gamers.

Changing the gender of an established character like Link reeks of appeasement of hardline feminists who've probably never played a game in their life. Why should developers bend the knee to make them happy?

I think there is a misplaced idea that because you used to be able to give Link any name there should now be some kind of character creation option.

At least that's a way I can look at it where it kind of makes sense. In the past they had limited space and time so you had one pixel model for the main character but you were able to change their name to whatever you wanted.

I believe some of the early Zelda games have "easter eggs" where if you enter "Zelda" as the character name something will happen?

So it certainly seems like a normal progression. You used to be able to change the protagonist name but now that tech and everything has moved forward you should be able to change the character entirely.

It just so happens though that since the early Zelda games Link has become an iconic Nintendo character and so asking "why isn't Link female" is like asking "why isn't Goofy a cat". It's dumb.

 

[01011001]

Make Link female = lots of porn and panty shots

yo, that's already happening tho

NOT THAT I WOULD KNOW...

 

[GeorgPrime]

Don't forget Aloy from HZD . Fully agree with you!

Thats why i said tjey habe enough female characters to make a zelda spinoff like zelda or midna.

They can even do a zelda harvest moon with marlon

 

[cireza]

Link should be a girl, save a princess and then they could have an intense lesbian relationship. Would be much better indeed.

 

[GymWolf]

I rather want Zelda with nice big anime tiddies that are worth saving

Not a booty guy eh?!

 

[Virex]

Not a booty guy eh?!

Can you read? I specifically said tits. Not ass, not lips not anything else. Big anime fucking tiddies

 

[Nickolaidas]

Don't worry, you'll always hold that title in my heart. *looks at your profile pic* Yes, absolutely.

Oh, the irony.

Then again, that's the joke, eh?

 

[V2Tommy]

I don’t understand any of this.

The Legend of Zelda.

The Legend of Zelda.

 

[Noboru Wataya]

Link, she come to town, come to save, the princess Zelda.

 

[PSFan]

Seeing those Famitsu pictures makes me realize that I want a Zelda game, where Link is missing and Zelda has to find him. So she dons his familiar tunic (after some alterations) and sets off to save him.

 

[GymWolf]

Can you read? I specifically said tits. Not ass, not lips not anything else. Big anime fucking tiddies

don't be mean, i'm a titty guy myself

 

[JSoup]

They can even do a zelda harvest moon with marlon

I'd be down for a Zelda-themed Harvest Moon.

 

[Iorv3th]

For all we know link may have been female then chose to be male, and now people asking for a female link are just being transphobic